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A new window will open...click the Check Now button
- Enter your Country
- Enter your State/Province
- Enter your e-mail address and click send(*NOTE it's perfectly safe to do so..You will NOT be spammed from this)
- Select either Home User or Company

Click the big Scan Now button

If/when you get a notice that Panda wants to install an ActiveX component allow it

It will start downloading the files it requires for the scan (Note: It may take a couple of minutes)

When download is complete, click on Local Disks to start the scan

When the scan completes, if anything is detected, click the See Report button, then Save Report and save it to a convenient location like your desktop.

You mentioned that nothing comes out as being wrong, so what else besides spyware / malware could be slowing the computer down. The hard drive is 15 GB and I have about 9 GB full. Not sure if this is a problem.

Ok, I ran the cleanmgr, Active scan, and a new highjackthis log.

Here are the results:

Active Scan log:

Incident Status Location

Spyware:Cookie/Advertising Not disinfected C:\Documents and Settings\wrightc\Cookies\wrightc@advertising[2].txt Spyware:Cookie/Atlas DMT Not disinfected C:\Documents and Settings\wrightc\Cookies\wrightc@atdmt[1].txt

Open My Computer and Rt. Click on your drive C:Choose Properties>Tools>Error Check>Click Check Now put a check in the box to "Automatically fix files system errors" and click OK. You will get a box saying it can't be ran now..do you want to run on next boot answer Yes.

You may also want to free up some system resources..

Open HijackThis and put a check next to Any/All/None of the followingAll of the following are UN-needed to run at startup. They can be ran as needed; saving system resources for better uses.